Actor Taron Egerton will battle it out against Fifty Shades Of Grey actress Dakota Johnson and Star Wars actor John Boyega at next month’s Bafta awards in the hopes of being named the next major star of the future.

Also in the running are Brie Larson, who received critical praise for her 2015 role in Room, the film adaptation of the Emma Donoghue book, and Bel Powley, who starred in coming-of-age drama The Diary Of A Teenage Girl in 2015.

He said of his nomination: “Thank you to Bafta and the jury. I’m honoured to be considered for the EE Rising Star Award in this company. What a great way to start the new year.”

Colin Firth as Harry Hart and Taron Egerton as Gary Unwin/Eggsy in Kingsman: The Secret Service

In Kingsman: The Secret Service Taron plays the street-wise Eggsy who is taken on by the older spy Harry Hart (Colin Firth) as his protege.

Harry trains Eggsy just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius Richmond Valentine, brought to life by Samuel L Jackson, an internet billionaire who is trying to take over the world.

The film was one of three movies shot in the last 18 months that feature the 25-year-old actor who grew up in Llanfairpwll and attended the village primary school before his family moved to Aberystwyth.

He played a leading role in another film on release, The Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain's account of women’s experiences during World War I and a movie about ski-jumping legend Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, who represented Great Britain in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, is due to be released later this year.

A Welsh-speaker Taron started his acting career at Aberystwyth Arts Centre before going to RADA graduating in 2012 after winning the Stephen Sondheim Society ‘Student Performer of the Year’ 2011.

Dakota Johnson (left) and John Boyega have been nominated for the Bafta EE Rising Star Award

Dakota Johnson who has also been nominated is the daughter of Hollywood star Melanie Griffith and Miami Vice’s Don Johnson. The 26-year-old made headlines when it was announced she had landed the role of Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of EL James’s erotic book, Fifty Shades Of Grey.

Previous winners of the award include James McAvoy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Hardy and last year’s winner, Jack O’Connell.

The nominees for the EE Rising Star Award - which recognises five stars who demonstrate exceptional talent and are destined to have a promising future in film - were chosen by a panel that included Broadchurch’s Olivia Colman and TV personality Jonathan Ross.

It is the only award at the EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony that is voted for by the public. The winner is announced at the star-studded ceremony on February 14.